Ironically, Kavaguti, who had been known as Kawaguchi when born in Japan, was the first Japanese pair skater to win a medal at an ISU championship when she skated with Russian-born Alexander Markuntsov.

Masamine Kawaguchi/Yomiuri Shimbun/Associated Press The operator of the Fukushima plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said on Friday morning that the workers conducted checks, and a spokesman told a news conference: 'We have confirmed that there has not been any major effect from last night's quake.'

As a wheeled cart with a closed-circuit television connection to JAMA's office in Tokyo rolled back and forth, Mr. Shiga looked to a senior vice president who had just overseen an annual disaster-preparedness drill three weeks before, Hitoshi Kawaguchi .

Tap water in Kawaguchi City in Saitama north of Tokyo contained 210 becquerels of radioactive iodine — well above the 100 becquerels considered safe for babies but below the 300-becquerel level for adults, Health Ministry official Shogo Misawa said.